58 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
teretibus ; foliis sparsis, cordato-ovatis, acuminatissimis, 9-nerviis, supra lete viridibus, subtus pallidis, nitidis, versus 
basin ganda lis scrobiculatis sparsis obsitis ; petiolis basi apiceque incrassatis; racemis masculis axillaribus solitariis, 
racemosis, folio subtriplo brevioribus ; Facbibul angulato-alatis, alis. brevissimis, minutissime puberulis ; floribus soli- 
tariis bracteis sque duabus ad basin جح‎ purpureis ; er turbinato-rotati laciniis ovato-oblongis, subobtusiss 
pa mis, ar 5 imatis, centro disci atro-purpurei hexagoni insertis; antheris introrsis 
bilocularibus post d turate aureis ; rudim ento pera nullo. 
Althou vd it is not easy to class a dicecious sinn of which only one sex is known, and that with scarcely charaeters 
enough to authorize its being made the basis of a new genus, yet I think that in the present ease there are two characters 
sufficient for this purpose ; viz. the presence and form of the sheath of the male flowers, and the presence of two 
ual great bracts at the base of each peduncle. As to the species, there is the cylindrical twining stem, the thickness 
of a crow-quill. The petiole, also cylindrical, two to three inches long, and thickened both at the top and the bottom. 
have red filaments and bluish anthers. The bulbs of this aie are o adi in shape and size to that of Disi alata, 
and were received by M. Mathieu of Berlin, who has them now (December 1851) in etd from M. Von Warezewiez, 
who discovered dd in Central America.— K lotzsch, in Allgem. Gartenzeit., Dec. 13, 1 
527. CESTRUM BRACTEATUM. k & Otto. (aliàs 0. stipulatum Fellozo.) A green- 
flowered, greenhouse shrub. Native if Brazil. Belongs to Nightshades. (Fig. 259.) 
This species is remarkable for the large size of its greenish bracts, which extend from the calyx as far as the limb 
of the corolla. It forms a stout branchin ng shrub, five to six feet high, with green downy branches. The leaves are 
al 
ing 
it is of little horticultural interest. 
528. 8860714 PUNCTATA. Link, 
Klotzsch, & Otto. A hothouse per- 
ennial with panicles of pink flowers. 
Belongs to Begoniads. Native of 
Mexico. oe 260.) 
andsome stemless herbaceous 
he 
ed palmate lobes bordered with 
i seat slightly ard on each side, 
: dark n the upper, pale green on 
the under side, with a tinge of red towards the ite ; pnm iile are furrowe 
covered with spreading hairs, | and furnished with a purple ramentaceous collar just beneath the 
aren The sepals are in pairs, oblong, a little narrowed to the base, bright rose-colour, with 
Bip ud MM Fore es htt o پوچ‎ a the outside, Fruit dotted with scarlet, the wings rounded, one being very 
cleifolia an i E pe À is plant, figured i In Link, Klotzsch, de Otto’s Abbildungen, is very near B. hera- 
int erassica e former differs in having dias ear green, smaller, and more deeply cut leaves, crenate bracts, 
unspotted flowers ; the latter in blossoms without leaves, white flow. wers, small oblong leaves, and perfectly circular 
sepals. They all have the same great double placenta, and belong to the section (1) Diploclinium, in -= 
